Effect of fuel cell units in economic and environmental dispatch of a Microgrid with penetration of photovoltaic and micro turbine units

Anastasiadis, Anestis G.; Konstantinopoulos, Stavros; Kondylis, Georgios P.; Vokas, Georgios A.; Papageorgas, Panagiotis

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.09.093

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“…The installation of FC units can bring significant economic benefits to the whole microgrid, demonstrated by different operation scenarios. A decrease in the annual operation costs by around 36% was reported in [27] by combining photovoltaic (PV) units via a micro turbine and especially a FC generation. Moreover, FC units contain no moving parts apart from the air and fuel compressors or air blower (in the case of air flow cooling).…”

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A review of the applications of fuel cells in microgrids: opportunities and challenges

Zheng

et al. 2019

BMC Energy

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Since the last two decades, microgrid, as one typical structure in smart grid framework, has been receiving increasing attention in the world. Meanwhile, fuel cell (FC), as one promising power source, has redrawn the attention of both academia and industry since the beginning of 21th century. Some encouraging achievements in FC technology have been realized thanks to the efforts taken in the last years. Due to this, it is seen that FC, as a clean and efficient energy source, is penetrating into different fields. Among the applications, integrating FCs into microgrids has shown interesting advantages on improving the performance of microgrids and promoting the use of the hydrogen energy. Some ongoing projects have shown that FCs of different power scales can be integrated into microgrids smartly and in different manners. Along with the advantages carried by the combination of the two technologies, many challenges lying on multiple domains are faced in the process. The challenges can be from the FC, the microgrid, and the integration of these two technologies. In this review paper, the advantages of integrating FCs into microgrids are summarized after recalling the knowledge background of FC. The challenges and ongoing researches on FCs and FCs based microgrids are then reviewed. Based on the analysis, the research directions are then extracted in view of the challenges.

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A review of the applications of fuel cells in microgrids: opportunities and challenges

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BMC Energy

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“…the number of charging EVs, availability of charging current, charging voltage, battery type, and capacity) aspects of the issue without considering any problem formulation and optimisation investigated in [12]. Many works of literature investigated various aspects of multiobjective optimisation of EVs from the perspective of the system operator or customer, for instance, some of them investigated costemission optimisation as a multi-objective problem [13][14][15] as it has been discussed in this paper. Anastasiadis et al [13] investigate a cost-emission optimisation from the point of view of the effect of fuel cell (FC) units in an economic and environmental dispatch of a microgrid with penetration of photovoltaic and microturbine units.…”

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“…Many works of literature investigated various aspects of multiobjective optimisation of EVs from the perspective of the system operator or customer, for instance, some of them investigated costemission optimisation as a multi-objective problem [13][14][15] as it has been discussed in this paper. Anastasiadis et al [13] investigate a cost-emission optimisation from the point of view of the effect of fuel cell (FC) units in an economic and environmental dispatch of a microgrid with penetration of photovoltaic and microturbine units. Hajibandeh et al [14] discuss the integration of wind power and demand response and it aims to minimise operational cost and environmental emission simultaneously.…”

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Method for EV charging in stochastic smart microgrid operation with fuel cell and renewable energy source (RES) units

Tashviri

Ghaffarzadeh

2020

IET Electrical Systems in Transportation

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Nowadays, running out of fossil fuels and more attention to reduce environmental pollutions are essential factors for the growing use of electric vehicles (EVs). Owing to these factors, it is important to present a method, which schedules charging or discharging of EVs and simultaneously considers economic and environmental aspects of the problem. This study proposes a multi-objective optimisation programme for charging or discharging of EVs in a smart distribution system by taking advantage of advanced metering infrastructure and uses a ɛ-constraint method for minimising operational costs and (CO 2) emissions. Simulating stochastic patterns of EV owner driving behaviour as well as considering different models and types of EVs with the help of trip planning algorithm are the main advantages of this study. Investigating the multi-objective problem in two cases shows the effectiveness and flexibility of this algorithm in real cases. Besides, vehicle-to-grid capability of EVs was also considered. This method was tested on a 33-bus distribution test system for over 24 h. As the results show, the total amount of scheduled power, the peak-to-valley difference of daily load, transmission power loss, CO 2 emission, and the total operational cost are reduced by the trip planning programme and EV owner revenue is increased.

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“…Anastasiadis et al. 13 performed a study on the economic and environmental effects of a microgrid composed of fuel cells, microturbines, and photovoltaic units. In this system, the fuel cell used natural gas as fuel, which has less environmental impact.…”

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Environmental assessment of a hybrid system composed of solid oxide fuel cell, gas turbine and multiple effect evaporation desalination system

Jehandideh

Hassanzade

Shakib

2020

Energy & Environment

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This study deals with a solid oxide fuel cell- gas turbine (SOFC-GT) hybrid system coupled with a multi-effect evaporation desalination plant with steam condensation. The environmental evaluation is also done due to the importance of waste energy recovery especially waste heat in power generation systems. The evaporation desalination plant is studied for using the excess heat to produce freshwater. The thermodynamic relationships governing different components of the system are first provided, including fuel cells, heat exchangers, gas turbine, and desalination plant. Next, given the absence of previous research on the environmental effects of cogeneration systems, despite its necessity, the study system is analyzed from an environmental point of view. Accordingly, the impacts of the system performance parameters, including the fuel consumption coefficients, compressor pressure ratio, fuel pre-reforming percentage, and the steam to carbon ratio are investigated on the CO2, CO, and NOx emission rates. Based on the findings, it is concluded that of different species, the impacts of CO, CO2, and NOx emission rates are significant on the environment. Thus, the impacts of pressure ratio and pre-reforming percentage on their emission rates have been studied. The results revealed with increasing the compressor pressure ratio, increasing the fuel consumption coefficients, and decreasing the fuel cell's exhaust temperature, the CO and NOx emission rates and corresponding social costs diminished. On the other hand, with elevation of the ratio of steam to carbon, the recovery rate, the fuel cell's exhaust temperature, the concerned gas emission rates, and corresponding social costs increased.

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Effect of fuel cell units in economic and environmental dispatch of a Microgrid with penetration of photovoltaic and micro turbine units

Cited by 50 publications

References 12 publications

A review of the applications of fuel cells in microgrids: opportunities and challenges

A review of the applications of fuel cells in microgrids: opportunities and challenges

Method for EV charging in stochastic smart microgrid operation with fuel cell and renewable energy source (RES) units

Environmental assessment of a hybrid system composed of solid oxide fuel cell, gas turbine and multiple effect evaporation desalination system

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